It was 1958. I was eighteen and was working as a nurse in a rural town west of Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five days   ____  from duty after working overtime for some time.    ___， the only train that day back to my hometown, over 270 km away, had already   ___.    I thought I'd thumb a lift.
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Twenty­five years later, in 1983, I was driving alone to a nearby town, when I   ____  an elderly man with a small boy, standing in the glaring heat, trying to   ____   a ride. I saw my chance to repay someone for the   ____   I'd been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked the   ____  up. I made them comfortable on the back seat and   ____  some water and sweets.
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小題1:A.off                     B．a(chǎn)way              
C．out                     B．up
小題2:
A．SurprisinglyB．Hopefully
C．UnfortunatelyD．Strangely
小題3:
A．startedB．left
C．delayedD．a(chǎn)rrived
小題4:
A．townB．station
C．railwayD．highway
小題5:
A．considered B．described
C．introducedD．named
小題6:
A．whenB．once
C．a(chǎn)lthoughD．unless
小題7:
A．tiredB．thirsty
C．a(chǎn)ngryD．hungry
小題8:
A．carefulB．safe
C．youngD．suspicious
小題9:
A．liftB．way
C．trainD．bicycle
小題10:
A．kitchenB．shop
C．houseD．garage
小題11:
A．villagersB．strangers
C．relativesD．neighbours
小題12:
A．badB．nervous
C．excitedD．a(chǎn)nxious
小題13:
A．everB．still
C．neverD．sometimes
小題14:
A．recognizedB．noticed
C．knewD．observed
小題15:
A．offerB．enjoy
C．demandD．get
小題16:
A．supportB．debt
C．effortD．favour
小題17:
A．pairB．couple
C．groupD．team
小題18:
A．exchangedB．shared
C．drankD．brought
小題19:
A．evenB．only
C．thusD．just
小題20:
A．remindB．repeat
C．recommendD．recall

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:C
小題6:C
小題7:D
小題8:B
小題9:A
小題10:C
小題11:B
小題12:A
小題13:C
小題14:B
小題15:D
小題16:D
小題17:A
小題18:B
小題19:A
小題20:D
文章大意：本文是一篇記敘文。一位叫Gordon的陌生人對作者進(jìn)行了幫助，帶作者去家里吃飯，并幫助作者搭便車。后來，作者一直想幫助別人，特別是等待搭便車的人，但是由于作者的丈夫?qū)δ吧瞬恍湃危恢蔽茨軐崿F(xiàn)。后來，作者在一次單獨駕車出行時，幫助了一位老人和孩子搭便車，而那位老人竟然就是曾經(jīng)幫助作者的Gordon。
小題1:A 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)下文的after working overtime for some time可知此處表示休假5天。在4各選項中，off有休假的意思。故A正確。
小題2:C 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)下文the only train that day…I thought I’d…可知唯一可以返鄉(xiāng)的火車已經(jīng)離開，所以作者感覺自己很不幸運。故C項正確。
小題3:B 考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)下文I thought I’d thumb a lift可知作者認(rèn)為自己只能搭便車了。由此可以推理唯一的火車已經(jīng)離開了。故B正確。
小題4:D 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，作者當(dāng)時在路邊等著搭便車，highway指公路，大路，與文意相符。故D正確。
小題5:答案：C　考查動詞辨析。一位路過的男士介紹自己是Gordon。introduce oneself as可作為短語使用，是“自稱”之意。由此可知，C項符合語境。故答案選C。
小題6:答案：C　考查連詞辨析。根據(jù)下文“I could come to his house”可知，前后句為讓步關(guān)系。因此，although“雖然，盡管”與此相符。故答案選C。
小題7:答案：D　考查形容詞辨析。根據(jù)下文“after standing for hours”和上文“for lunch”，并結(jié)合選項可知，空格處表達(dá)的意思是“饑餓的”，因此，hungry符合文義。故答案選D。
小題8:B 考察形容詞辨析。根據(jù)下文可知Gordon請作者去他家吃午飯，因為當(dāng)時作者有點猶豫，所以對方使作者相信自己是安全的。由此可知，空格處應(yīng)該使用safe，suspicious，故B正確。
小題9:A 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文第一段最后一句，I thought I’d thumb a lift,可知，此處指的是Gordon使作者相信他他也會幫助作者搭到一輛車。根據(jù)lift符合上下文語境。故A正確。
小題10:C 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文第二段第一句I could come to his hous可知作者到了Gordon的住處。故C項符合上下文。
小題11:B 考察名詞辨析。此處的語境與上文形成鮮明的對比，作者的丈夫不相信陌生人，不會讓他們搭便車。由此可知B正確。
小題12:答案：A　考查形容詞辨析。作者一心想幫助別人搭便車，但是，她的丈夫不愿意那樣做。因此，從那些在路邊上等待搭便車的人旁邊經(jīng)過時，作者心里感到難過。由此可知，bad符合文義。故答案選A。
小題13:C 考察副詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，作者之所以難過，是因為她從來不幫助陌生人，讓他們搭便車。選項中只有C項表示否定的含義。故C正確。
小題14:B 考察動詞辨析。作者第一次單獨駕車時，注意到一個老人帶著一個小男孩。因此B項符合上下文含義。
小題15:D考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，此處指老人正在等著搭便車，get a ride是固定搭配，是搭便車的意思。故D正確。
小題16:D 考察名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文可知，此處指作者早在幾十年前就被給予了幫助，所以作者在尋找機(jī)會來報答曾經(jīng)被給予幫助。D項幫助，恩惠；符合上下文。故D正確。
小題17:答案：A　考查名詞辨析。根據(jù)上文“an elderly man with a small boy”可知，此處指的是老人和孩子兩個人。在四個選項中，pair符合文義。故答案選A。
小題18:B 考察動詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，此處指的是作者和他們一起分享水和甜品。因此shared與文意相符。故B正確。
小題19:答案：A　考查副詞辨析。根據(jù)上下文可知，空格處表示的是程度，前后兩句為遞進(jìn)關(guān)系，even意為“甚至”，與此相符。故答案選A。
小題20:答案：D　考查動詞辨析。根據(jù)語境可知，作者一時想不起在哪里見過他。remind意為“提醒”；repeat意為“重復(fù)”；recommend意為“推薦，建議，勸告”；recall意為“回想起，記起”。根據(jù)語境可知，答案選D。
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·Try speaking to the students you're sitting next to in class. As they're close by, it is easy to chat to them first.
·Try to speak to everyone in your class. You will study here for three years, so it helps if you get along well with them.
·If you don't have many friends in your class, try and make new friends in your neighbor classes. You can also chat to them at lunchtimes and after school.
·Join a lunchtime or afterschool club. You'll get to meet kids of all years that way.
·Ask your teacher to pair you With another student.
·Use your "celebrity status"(名人身份）! Since you're the new person, you'll have got celebrity status, which you can use for a couple of weeks.
·Talk to classmates, remember to smile, and be open and friendly. Don't break in while your classmates are speaking. When your classmates talk to you, you should listen carefully and look at them in the eye to make them feel important.
·As you grow older, it's natural to make new friends and sometimes that means you begin to grow apart from your old friends. So try and make time for all your friends. But what if a friendship group is pushing you out? If this is happening to you, ask someone you're friendly with what has happened .If the friendship is hopeless, try to find new friends.
小題1:According to the passage, moving to an unfamiliar school is_______.
A．interestingB．excitingC．uncomfortableD．boring
小題2:What is the purpose of the passage?
A．To explain how to make new friends easily.
B．To show how to be used to new school life．
C．To encourage people to make new friends.
D．To introduce how to live in a new school.
小題3:It is suggested that you should ________.
A．try to study well to be popular with the classmates
B．try all your best to help your new classmates
C．sit close to a familiar classmate in the classroom
D．catch every opportunity to communicate with others
小題4:To make your classmates feel that they are important to you, you can
A．smile while talking with themB．watch and listen to them carefully
C．be friendly and open to themD．make use of your celebrity status
小題5:If a friendship group is leaving you out, you should
A．make your different friends know each other
B．forget them and make new friends at once
C．try to know the reason from a close friend
D．turn to your teachers or parents for help

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Here are the comments on CRI (China Radio International) given by people from different countries on the Internet.
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Yingtian Hu
Guangzhou, China
This is the first time that I participate in CRI. And I like it very much. I hope its website will become the most excellent one with the foreign languages. And I choose the important news which I think has a great influence on our society and our lives. In the end, I hope that more and more persons join in CRI and make it perfect!
SujanParajuli,
Select city, Nepal
I am both a regular listener of CRI and visitor of its wonderful Website. First of all, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to CRI for its great efforts to keep the listeners up-to-date during the year 2008. We, the listeners, are greatly grateful to CRI for its praise-worthy efforts to quench the thirst of its dear listeners. During the Year 2008, I found all of your programs quite interesting, informative and educational.  Once again, thanks a lot for offering bonanza of information, news, entertainment and many items which have indeed broaden the horizons of our knowledge and understanding as well.
Ibrahim
Rustamov,
Tajikistan
With CRI, I was impressed by China’s rapid development in all spheres. But I felt so sorry to get to know about the snowstorms in China and Wenchuan earthquake. CRI and CCTV play a great role in introducing China to the world! Kudos! My friends and I wish CRI all the best!
Mike Thatcher,
London
My family and I are all keen on Chinese Culture, especially the beautiful Chinese folk music. Various interesting programs by CRI just open a window for us foreigners, through which we can know more about China and have a better understanding of the Chinese culture. Best wishes to CRI! Best wishes to China!
小題1:Which of the following benefits of CRI is NOT mentioned above?
A．CRI helps to keep its listeners up-to-date.
B．CRI helps its listeners to better understand China.
C．CRI helps its listeners to practice and improve foreign languages.
D．CRI helps its listeners broaden their knowledge with its rich contents.
小題2:The underlined phrase “quench the thirst” refers to _____.
A．satisfy one’s needB．supply drinks
C．take care ofD．keep in touch with
小題3:What can be concluded from the four comments?
A．CRI has a great influence on our society and lives.
B．Wonderful though CRI is, there are still many weaknesses.
C．CRI plays an important role in introducing the world to China.
D．CRI has made great efforts to make itself better and gained popularity.

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They can be seen more frequently than ever before on college campuses, wearing flannel(法蘭絨) and thick­framed glasses while listening to music. One might find them playing unusual musical instruments, shopping at second­hand stores or expressing themselves in other unique ways.
They call themselves hipsters. Being “hip” used to mean following the latest fashion. But gradually the word has become a sign of “being cool, unique and unusual”．
Hipsters value independent thinking, progressive politics, an appreciation of creativity and intelligence. Hipsters take pains and pride in not being mainstream. However, their culture has become quite trendy. This irony(諷刺) is central to their culture and offers an interesting conflict.
“I do take things in the mainstream with a positive attitude，” says Ben Polson, a college student at Brown University. “But sometimes I also question what determines popularity, especially regarding music.” Polson represents many hipsters.
When less­known bands become popular, they often lose their former fan base in exchange for a new one. There is a famous hipster saying that goes, “I used to like that band before it got popular，” Polson quoted.
According to Polson, bands' music changes when they go mainstream. They become less experimental, doing things just to save popularity and fans. The original elements that we were drawn to slowly disappear for the sake of popularity.
Many young adults have started to view hipsters' outlook as cool and they are adopting hipsters' anti­mainstream culture mind to themselves. This has led to specialized brands, stores and music for the hipster consumers. But on the other hand, some such stores, including clothing labels Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, have gained mainstream popularity. This has seemingly made the anti­mainstream culture become weaker.
“A lot of people that are self­defined hipsters aren't really hipsters. They're just trying to act as hipsters to seem cooler，” says Amanda Leopold, a college student from Oberlin College, US. Although Leopold has many unusual tastes and seems quite individualist, she refuses to classify herself as a hipster.
小題1:In the passage, hipsters refer to people ________.
A．who are fans of pop music
B．who study in different colleges
C．who appear cool and unusual
D．who try to attract others
小題2:According to the author, ________.
A．hipsters are the pioneers of the mainstream
B．hipsters are unhappy with the mainstream
C．hipsters' culture exists mainly in music field
D．hipsters' culture can also become popular
小題3:What is the main idea of the seventh paragraph?
A．Urban Outfitters and American Apparel are famous clothing labels.
B．Hipster consumers have more specialized brands, stores and music.
C．Anti­mainstream culture can gain mainstream popularity.
D．The culture of hipsters is becoming more and more terrible.
小題4:When describing hipsters, the author speaks ________.
A．in an ironic voiceB．in an objective voice
C．in an angry voiceD．in a funny voice

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